[ExI] Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal

[natasha at natasha.cc]

   Quoting Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>:

> 2011/11/10  <natasha at natasha.cc>:
>> Quoting Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>:
>>> Well, folks, are you alive?
>> Yes, I am alive.
> I believe you Natasha!!!!

   :-)
>> I have read and survived Rand. I do not support her
>> objectivism nor her reven[ge]fulness. Not for a moment.

> That is your privilege as a living person... :-)  She did seem to have
> a pretty big axe to grind, but given her childhood in communist
> Russia, I can somewhat forgive her over-reaction in the other
> direction.

   I emote, therefore I am.

   > I don't have your location on the political spectrum Natasha.. is that
> because you are eclectic or eccentric in your political beliefs, or
> just that you haven't said?

   I was a Liberal, Democrat, then an elected Green Councilperson  
for LA County. ...  Then I started thinking.  ... Now "I am neither  
right nor left" (Esfandiary). I tend to be more of an insightful  
Dennis Miller type than a biased Laura Ingraham type. I am not  
interested in blame and hate against those who own companies and  
provide jobs to others. Nor do I think it is okay for shareholders to  
give ridiculous bonuses to themselves and also take money from the  
government. And I do not respect presidents to vacation in Martha?s  
Vineyard or Tim Buck Two, when people are jobless. And I certainly do  
not think that people should be receiving unemployment payout for an  
extended period of time. But I do think that one thrives when one  
cares for others. Narratives (TV, film, books or whatever) that make  
money off of dumbing down society are a terrible crime against humanity.

   My ideological position is as a designer.  I think about  
socio-economics and biopolitics as a design problem. My political  
leaning: "locate the problem, find the most effective way to resolve  
it, and get going."  This has to be done with an unbiased, logical  
methodology for seeing what is most workable, doable with the most  
amount of thought/knowledge and the least amount of waste.  It is a  
formula to resolve rather than to label. 



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